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The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
In: Journal of Third World studies: historical and contemporary Third World problems and issues, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 325-326
ISSN: 8755-3449
Post-genocide identity politics in Rwanda
International audience ; When the journal was launched in 2001, the first issue included an article by this author, which examined the politics of `race' and identity as central ingredients in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. This current article considers how political identities have been reconstructed since the genocide, especially from above. History, law and politics are examined, as central instruments in government efforts to construct a new Rwandan society and ensure that genocide will `never again' be possible. Evidence suggests that inequalities in income and land distribution have grown rapidly since 1994. At the same time, the poor and marginalized often find it difficult to openly express their views, including their political identities outside of officially circumscribed spaces and categories. Debates continue around numbers of victims and perpetrators, and new inter-elite conflicts have emerged along language lines. The article shows how race categories have been replaced with new terms, which arise from a particular reading of the genocide. A new foundation myth for Rwanda, a form of diasporic victim nationalism, is also briefly explored. Re-labelling Rwandans from above, the state continues to exercise tight control over the public expression of political identities. Open political debate is very difficult; the government frequently feels it is being attacked, and accuses critics of divisionism or harbouring a genocide mentality. If more inclusive forms of Rwandan-ness are to emerge in future, state controls will need to be relaxed, so that more complex forms of political identities can finally emerge.
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Post-genocide identity politics in Rwanda
In: Ethnicities, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 5-41
When the journal Ethnicities was launched in 2001, the first issue included an article by this author, which examined the politics of `race' and identity as central ingredients in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. This current article considers how political identities have been reconstructed since the genocide, especially from above. History, law and politics are examined, as central instruments in government efforts to construct a new Rwandan society and ensure that genocide will `never again' be possible. Evidence suggests that inequalities in income and land distribution have grown rapidly since 1994. At the same time, the poor and marginalized often find it difficult to openly express their views, including their political identities outside of officially circumscribed spaces and categories. Debates continue around numbers of victims and perpetrators, and new inter-elite conflicts have emerged along language lines. The article shows how race categories have been replaced with new terms, which arise from a particular reading of the genocide. A new foundation myth for Rwanda, a form of diasporic victim nationalism, is also briefly explored. Re-labelling Rwandans from above, the state continues to exercise tight control over the public expression of political identities. Open political debate is very difficult; the government frequently feels it is being attacked, and accuses critics of divisionism or harbouring a genocide mentality. If more inclusive forms of Rwandan-ness are to emerge in future, state controls will need to be relaxed, so that more complex forms of political identities can finally emerge.
Genocide in Rwanda.
In: Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions., S. 109-116
Negotiating genocide in Rwanda: the politics of history
In: Palgrave studies in oral history
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Genocide in Rwanda
In: Genocide and the Global Village, S. 71-81
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 170-171
ISSN: 1353-7113
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The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
In: Population and development review, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 381
ISSN: 1728-4457
The Rwanda Crisis 1959-1994: History of a Genocide
In: Journal of contemporary African studies, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 289-290
ISSN: 0258-9001
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 75, Heft 3, S. 156
ISSN: 2327-7793
THE RWANDA GENOCIDE
In: Z magazine: a political monthly, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 25-36
ISSN: 1056-5507
Rwanda: operation genocide
In: New African: the bestselling pan-African magazine, S. 12-15
ISSN: 0140-833X, 0142-9345
Gendering Rwanda Genocide and Post-Genocide
In: Journal of international peacekeeping, Band 22, Heft 1-4, S. 215-229
ISSN: 1875-4112
In his chapter, Adam Jones addresses genocide as multi-dimensional crime. He describes two broad typologies of genocide – 'gendercide', and 'root and branch genocide', which are 'distinguished by the different operations of the gender variable in each'. As Jones outlines, the Rwanda genocide evidenced broad range of gendered aspects – from leveraging ethnicized gender tropes, through the sometime employment of gender-based genocidal approaches (execution, rape), to the economic and social consequences (planned or not) that are the legacy of gendered genocide. 'The "gendering" of a given genocide', he concludes, 'therefore encompasses the cultural configurations that influence the mobilisation of perpetrators and the targeting of victims, as well as the sexed bodies that are damaged or destroyed in genocidal campaigns'.